“There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.”
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Ovid, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria, three major collections of erotic poetry, the Metamorphoses a mythological hexameter poem, the Fasti, about the Roman calendar, and the Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto, two collections of poems written in exile on the Black Sea. Ovid was also the author of several smaller pieces, the Remedia Amoris, the Medicamina Faciei Femineae, and the Ibis, a long curse-poem. He also authored a lost tragedy, Medea. He is considered a master of the elegiac couplet, and is traditionally ranked alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three canonic poets of Latin literature. The scholar Quintilian considered him the last of the canonical Latin love elegists.[1] His poetry, much imitated during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, decisively influenced European art and literature and remains as one of the most important sources of classical mythology.[2] ([Source][1].) [1]:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid
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“There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.”
“All things change, nothing is extinguished.”
“Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.”
“Fortune and love favor the brave.”
“Happy the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.”
“Fortune and Love befriend the bold.”
“Happy the man who can count his sufferings.”
“Few love what they may have.”
“Happy is the man who ventures boldly to defend what he holds dear.”
“If you want to be loved, be lovable.”
“If thou wouldst marry wisely, marry thine equal.”
“Fortune and love befriend the bold.”
“What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.”
“A woman is always buying something.”
“Whether they give or refuse, women are glad to have been asked.”
“Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying, once and for all.”
“I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.”
“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
“Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies.”
“As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never wa...”